It's a Saturday night in early April in Milwaukee, with mild temperatures and a light south wind. As Lake Michigan laps gently against the sea wall on Jones Island, jetliners pass overhead on approach ...

An early winter wasn't on the top of the wish list for many New Brunswickers, but for ice fishermen it was a welcome surprise. Travis Surette, who has set up a fishing tent in Shediac Bay, first went ...

Otters rely heavily on smelt as a key part of their diet, and the Great Lakes Aquarium is home to two river otters, Agate and ...

A juvenile delta smelt inside a rearing tank at the UC Davis Fish Conservation and Culture Lab. Photo: Dale Kolke / California Department of Water Resources About a third of delta smelt samples from ...

Longfin smelt live for several years, spawning in freshwater and inhabiting estuaries and nearshore waters, and even ranging out into the ocean. Usually growing from 3.5 to 4.3 inches as adults, these ...

Jimmy Merrill of Yarmouth packs up his gear and prepares to leave the ice Monday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2024, after smelt fishing on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick. The large eddy below the dam is ...

On a rocky strip of Lake Superior beachfront, the rites of spring begin at dusk and involve fish. Lots and lots of fish. Every year, like clockwork, slender, silvery rainbow smelt, each no longer than ...

In this Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, photo, ice fisherman Roger Dupuis of Waltham, Mass., shows off a pair of rainbow smelt he caught at Jim Worthing's Smelt Camps on the Kennebec River in Randolph, Maine.

FILE – Steve Jesi of Middleton, Mass., steps out of a fishing shack to stretch his legs at Leighton’s Smelt Camps, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Bowdoinham, Maine. A late arriving winter has made it ...